Toshiba Starts Sample Shipments of New "SmartMCD™" Series Product Integrating Microcontroller and Motor Driver

Toshiba's latest product from Smart Motor Control Driver SmartMCD™ series delivers integrated solution for automotive brushed ...
EDN

STMicroelectronics Introduces First Sensorless Field-Oriented Motor-Control Solution for ARM Cortex Based Devices

STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has announced a complete three-phase motor-control development kit based on the breakthrough STM32 Flash microcontroller – launched mid-2007 – which provides all the ...
Machine Design

Eliminating sensors from closed-loopcontrol

Direct torque control is a motor-control method for ac drives that accurately regulates motor speed and torque without encoder feedback from the motor shaft. Eliminating encoders can simplify ...
Electronic Design

Create Optimum Vector Control For Brushless Motors

1. Field-oriented control (FOC), also known as vector control, maintains a constant stator field in quadrature with the rotor field irrespective of any bandwidth limitations presented by the PI ...